A popular writing app has teamed up with eHarmony to determine whether a person’s writing ability affects their performance on online dating services.
Grammarly has just released the results of a new survey, which focuses on how online daters could improve their chances of getting dates by using better grammar.
The company did so by reviewing 10,000 eHarmony male/female matches, generated by the site’s own matching algorithm.
It found that 75% of men and 88% of women do in fact judge a date on their use of grammar, and confirmed that people typically rank grammar higher than confidence when looking for a potential date.
Grammarly also revealed that men who use the “women” rather than “girls” are 28% more successful, and men who use the word “whom” get 31% more contacts from women.
Interestingly, women are more likely to make more grammar, spelling and punctuation errors per 100 words on their dating profiles, despite men using 21.9% more words than women in their responses to questions.
However, the study confirmed that women can “afford to be pickier” than men, given that they generally get more matches.
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